· Public charity
The Jefferson Foundation
Jeffco schools foundation vision is "every jeffco student thrives- and mission is "secure resources and engage in partnerships to ensure jeffo students thrive through equitable, excellent, and engaging educational experiences."
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $299,683 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $402,898 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $103,215 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $242k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEFFERSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $242,233 |
| ARVADA HIGH SCHOOL | $16,450 |
| POMONA JRSR HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION | $8,205 |
| ALAMEDA INTERNATIONAL JRSR HIGH | $7,880 |
| DEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,600 |
| SLATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,315 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JPJEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO2× · 2021–2022 · $368k
- ACARVADA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2022–2024 · $305k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TJTeamUp JeffCoone grant, 2021 · $117k · 37% of their budget
- FRFRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +10%
- MSMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…
AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…
The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…
Jeffco schools foundation vision is "every jeffco student thrives- and mission is "secure resources and engage in partnerships to ensure jeffo students thrive through equitable, excellent, and engaging educational experiences."
We foster resiliency in underinvested business communities across colorado by innovatively addressing capital gaps. at energize colorado, we envision a future where we are the go-to destination for business owners seeking comprehensive…
We are committed to improving the strength and stability of our business community. We help our members maximize the value of their membership to increase success.
Together we create solutions for a better life.
The following mission statement guides the cooperative in fulfilling its tax exempt purpose of providing quality and reliable electric service to our member-consumers: improving lives and communities through choice and innovation.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Golden High School Performing Arts Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARVADA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TeamUp JeffCo ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Remerg ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Jefferson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.